Corn-shocker



l(No Modem H. LEVARN.

CORN SHOGKER.

N01427,094. Patented May 6,1890.

FFICE ATnT HENRY LEVARN, OF CROW'N POINT, NEW YORK.

CORN-SHOCKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,094, dated May 6, 1890.

Application tiled September 2'7, 1889. Serial No. 325,261. (No model.)

T0 all whom, it may concern: v

Be it known that I, HENRY LEVARN, a citi zen of the United States, residing at Grown Point, in the county of Essex and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Corn Bundler and Shocker, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to a corn bundler and shocker, and among the objects in `view are to provide a handy device adapted for easy transportation betweenrows of corn and to facilitate the bundling and shocking of the same. l

IVith these general objects in View the invention consists in certain details of construction hereinafter specied, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a device constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section, looking toward the legs, on the line a: .fr of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of one of the legs removed. Fig. 4 is a detail in perspective of one of the legs and its operating-cord and adjacent parts. l

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

l represents the main beam, to the opposite sides of which, near the front end thereof,

are secured the legs 2, the rear end of the beam trailing on the ground.` Each of the legs 2 is formed in sections 3 and 4 by being divided at about its center in a transverse manner, the sections of each leg being connected by a hinge 5, secured to the inner faces thereof, and are yieldingly maintained in alignment by a spring-rod 6 working freely in staples 7 inserted in the legs.

8 represents a basket or carrier formed of light material and adapted for the carrying of binding-wires or bale-bands of the usual description. The basket is vertically halved,

' and one of its halves is secured to the front extends from each of the eyes, projecting from the legs and up to the guide-eye projecting from the basket, and from thence up through an opening 13 and above the upper face of the beam, where the wires l2 are provided with a ring 14. If desired, cords may be substituted for the wires. In rear of the legs there is located a pair of eyes l5, with each of which is loosely connected one end ot' a cord 16, and with the opposite end of the cords there are connected removable pins 17. In rear of the eyes there is mounted transverselyin the beam a cross-bar 18, the ends of which project at both sides of the beam, and at each side of the cross-bar are located pairs of pin-receiving openings 19 and 20.

The operation of the invention is as follows: The ring 13 is grasped andthe device carried between two rows of corn, a man being at either side and cutting stalks from as many rows as he can conveniently' work and piling the same within the angles formed bythe beam and cross-bar. By this there will soon be accumulated four bundles of stalks. The removable pins connected to the ends of the cords are now withdrawn from the pair of openings 19 at the front of the beam and swung around the outside of those two bundles occurring at an adjacent side of the beam and inserted in the rear pair of openings 20. In this manner the bundles are temporarily supported, the ends of all the stalks being upon the ground, and the operators take from the basket a binding cord, wire, or other tie, and the bundles are bound, after which the tops of the four bundles are bound together, so as to form a single shock, which is removed from the device and left standing in the field. It will be observed that the individual stalks composing the shock will all have their butts substantially iiush with each other and resting on the ground, thus insu ring a stable base and avoiding the possibility of being subsequently blown down by heavy winds. one shock has been formed, and previous to its removal, the pins are inserted -in the forward pair of openin gs and the ring 13 grasped by one of the operators and the device lifted for transportation to a point farther along the row. By lifting upon the ring it will be observed that the wires or cords 12 will draw the lower sections and the supporting-legs inwardly at their lower ends, thus preventing After ICO said ends from engaging with cornstalks at the sides of the row, and when the device is lowered to the ground the legs will, by reason of the springs, spread to form a suitable base.

Any form of basket may be substituted for the one herein shown, and for the purpose of aiding in the support of the same I provide an inclined brake 20, the upper end of which is secured to the beam and the lower end to the bottom of the basket.

As shown by dotted lines in Fig. l, I may provide a second cross-bar 1S near the rear lower end of the beam for the purpose of younger or shorter corn, and in such instances would also duplicate the cords, pins, and openings.

Having described lny invention, what I claim isl. In a corn-horse, the combination, with the beam, of a pair of supporting-legs formed in sections hinged together, a spring for normally maintaining the sections in line with,

each other, and means for contracting the lower sections against the tension of 4the springs, substantially as specified.

2. In a corn-horse, the combination, with the beam, of a pair of legs connected with the beam and formed in sections hinged together, springs for maintaining the sections in line with each other, and opposite cords or Wires connected to the sections and passed through an opening in the beam and provided with a ring, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with the beam and the inclined brace 20, of the basket secured to the beam and rest-ing on the brace, subst-antially as speciied.

4. The combination, with the beam and a transverse bar mounted in the same and projecting from the sides thereof, of openings formed at each side of the bar, and an intermediate pair of screw-eyes secured between the openings and providedwvith cords having pins adapted to be inserted in said openings, substantially as specified.

5. The combination, with the beam having a transverse bar, of a pair of cords loosely connected with the beam at one side of the bar, and connecting devices secured to the free ends of the cords and adapted to connect with connecting devices located at the opposite side of the bar, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY LEVARN.

Witnesses:

J. H. LARETA, CURTIS E. INMAN. 

